About Space Walk from Michele Rizzo with Emma Daniel & Valerio Sirna.
By Clara Amaral
I was thinking about the difference between adding a word before or after Space. For example: open space, closed space, middle space vs. Space walk. Obviously, it is possible to talk about walking a Space, but we never really say: —That Space there is really calling for a walk, I will go and walk it. Maybe the Space that is a field asks for a walk, or the Space that is a beautiful avenue asks for a walk; an anonymous space doesn’t ask for a walk. But if you ask me, that looks like the best space for going for a walk. To Space walk. And that would be the moment before the Space becomes something, before the Space becomes the highway, the beach, the football field or even the theatre space. The Space that shows and talks the invisible, the imagination, the potential.
While watching Space Walk from Michele Rizzo, I had to think, “how is it that a closed circuit becomes an open space?”
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The definition of closed circuit is: “A circuit without interruption, providing a continuous path through which a current can flow”, in the most common cases, Electricity.
The performers- Emma Daniel and Valerio Sirna- had a closed circuit going on. They closed
themselves in each other but by doing so they revealed some other walk in some other Space that they clearly could touch, feel, were in and were part of. I had to think about the potential of inhabiting spaces that we don’t know yet, that we can inhabit but don’t know how to reach or even how to be there. And here I’m not talking about other planets. Planets still exist because we, or someone else, saw them through a telescope. But what about all that we haven’t seen? In those cases, maybe we are invited for a Space walk.
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And after awhile Daniel and Sirna are with us as if they had woken up from dancing, and they say:
— Hey! Where are we?
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Waking up from dancing is not sleeping as we know it. It is about practicing dancing as if it were a deep sleep from which one wakes up. In Daniel and Sirna’s case, they woke up to a moving spacewhere human and non-human attach, pull and push each other- it was like a solidarity of things. Moving things joining other moving things. Such a space I never saw before, a space with other rules, attractions, sensualities and materialities. I also can’t say that i saw that Space, but as much as Emma Daniel and Valerio Sirna believed in it, I also did.
